Pulp-screen.



PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

'EL MEURER.

PULP SCREEN.4

APPLICATION FILED MAB.30.1906.

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.EUGENE MEURER, ,or MUsKEGON, MICHIGAN. PULP-SCREEN.

Y No. 830,349.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application nea March so, 1906. sain No. 308,882.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, EUGENE MEURER, a 'citizen of the Empire of Germany, residing in Muskegon, in the county of Muskegon and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful. Improvements in Pulp-Screens, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to certain improvements in pulp-screensV by which the knots and slivers are in a reliable manner separated from the bers, the latter beingassed through the slots of the screen and con ucted o, the screen being submerged in the water during operation, so -that the vacuum prolA duced at the under side of the screen assists in separating the bers from the knots and slivers and the invention consists of a pulpscreen comprising a pulp-box, a screen with screen-plates and transverse bars below the same, means for reciprocating the screen, stationary cross-bars in said piialp-box, and a discharge-box rovided with a partition for regulating the evel of the liquid in the pulpbox; and the invention consists, further, of certain details of construction, which will be fully described hereinafter andnally pointed out in the claims. 5

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section of my improved pulp-screen on line 1 1, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same; and Fig. 3

is avertical transverse section on line v3 3,

Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corres onding Vparts in the different gures of the K awings.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a screen which is composed of an oblong frame that is open at the outgoing end H and suspended near the outgoing end by chains or springs E. The screen A receives a rapidlyreciprocating motion from eccentrics C on a driving-shaft S, which is located below the ingoing end of the screen A, said screen being connected by straps C with the screen, as shown in Fig. 1. The screen portion proper is preferably arranged at an angle of inclination, soas to be submerged in the liquid of a pulp-box B, which is somewhat wider than the screen, but of less length than the same, the end walls of the pul -box B being recessed at their upper en s, so as to permit the eciprocation of the screen-frame in the same. The screen A is made in the usual manner,' the screen-platesl A having ne slots, said plates being supported at the unshaped cross-section, which form pockets with the side walls of the frame of the screen, in which pockets a partial vacuum is produced below the screen when the latter is reciprooated. The water and pulp are supplied bythe inlet D to the ingoing end of the screen, the pulp being screened while passing over the surface of the rapidly reciprocating screen in such a manner that the knots and slivers pass over the screen and out at the discharge end H of the screen, while the bers are drawn by suction through the slots in the screen-plates, so as to collect at the bottom of the box B, they` being 'then delivered through a discharge-box K at one side Of the same. By the reciprocating motion of the screen submerged, in the water of the pulpbox a vacuum is formed under the screen, which is strongest at the end nearest the inlet D and which diminishes toward the outlet H and which assists in sucking the pulp bers through the ne slots in the screen-plates. The pulp-box B is provided below the screen with cross-bars B', which, like the screen, are arranged at an inclination corresponding to that of the screen. The cross-bars B are attached to the side walls of the pulp-box and serve for the purpose of giving a certain resistance to the water and pulp, so that the motion of the same is retarded and prevented from reciprocating at the same speed as the screen and the water and pulp above the same, whereby the suction action on the bers below the screen is produced. The dischar e-box K is rovided with a partition K', the eight of w 'ch regulates the level of the liquid in the box B, so that the water, with the separated bers, can pass over the edge of the partition K and outl in the space between the same Vand the outer wall of the discharge-box K.

The advantages of the improved pulpscreenare that owing to the vacuum proroo duced below the screen-plates and the reciprocation-of the screen in submerged condition a suction action is exerted on the bers, so as to force them through the slots in the screen.

By the action of the vacuum below the screen 165 even the longer bers, which heretofore were liable to be run to waste with the knots and slivers, are drawn through the ne slots in the screen. VAs the screen submerged, it is self-cleaning, requires no special attention, 110

and furnishes a clean product.

Having thus described my invention, I

' box for the pulp-box, a partition in said disclaim as new and desire to secure Yluy-Letters Patent- 1. The combination of a pulp-box, a dis*- charge-boX for said pulp-box, a screen con-4 ing inclination from the ingoing toward theV outgoing end of the pulp-box, a dischargecharge-box, a screen arrangedV at an upward inclination above the cross-bars, and 4means Jfor imparting reciproeating'motion to the screen While submerged in the liquid inthe pulp-box.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in. presence of two subscribing Witnesses. A

EUGENE MEURER.

Witnesses: y

J, E. PETEBSE'N, E. J. TooLER. 

